I always take a cold shower to wake me up and close my pores. Then I moisturize my face.

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I've gotten used to it.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

I mean, whatever’s supposed to happen is gonna happen.

You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.

I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.